Training and development of civil servants amid digitalization
https://doi.org/10.18184/2079-4665.2026.17.2.339-353
Abstract
Purpose: to develop a model for training and development system of civil servants amid digitalization, the key element of which is a mechanism for building civil servants’ digital competencies based on a value-based approach.
Methods: the study relies on comprehensive methodology, including institutional and systems approaches. A content analysis of scholarly publications and Russian regulatory legal acts regulating the digitalization of HR processes in the civil service was conducted. Based on the modelling method, graphic interpretations of the system of civil servants’ training and development and the mechanism for the formation of digital competencies were developed.
Results: the analysis of key regulatory legal acts allowed systematizing the main areas of personnel work digitalization: remote interaction expansion, integration of personnel procedures in the digital environment, documentation standardization, and employee data updating. The article provides the model of the staff training and development system. A cyclic algorithm for implementing this mechanism is proposed, which includes diagnostics, goal-setting, training and assessment.
Conclusions and Relevance: the proposed system of civil servants’ training and development amid digitalization can become an effective tool for modernizing Russian public administration. The introduction of a value-oriented mechanism for the formation of civil servants’ digital competencies will overcome excessive bureaucratization and ensure the transition to a modern model of digital public administration in Russia. The feasibility of developing a separate federal project “Formation of Digital Competencies of Civil Servants” within the framework of the national project “Data Economy and Digital Transformation of the State” is substantiated.
Keywords
civil service,
personnel management,
personnel training,
service,
value-based approach,
digitalization,
digital competencies
Supporting agencies: The study was conducted under the assignment of Lomonisov Moscow State University.
About the Authors
M. V. Kudina
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Competing Interests:
Russian Federation
Marianna V. Kudina, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Innovative Development Economics, School of Public Administration
Moscow
Competing Interests:
The authors declare that there is no Conflict of Interest.
T. V. Smirnov
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Competing Interests:
Russian Federation
Tim V. Smirnov, Postgraduate student, School of Public Administration
Moscow
Competing Interests:
The authors declare that there is no Conflict of Interest.
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